Even just getting to a serial console (the limit of current functionality after this merge) is a huge step to making sure Apple’s hardware can be yours well after they stop supporting it.

I’ve tried Asahi on my M1 and it’s excellent as long as you go into it knowing the limitations and how they might affect your personal use cases/requirements.

My daily driver is a Linux workstation which was borne out of needing a multi-monitor setup and my MacBook Air only supporting a single external display. I repurposed my Linux gaming rig into a work machine two years ago and haven’t looked back.

It’s been such a positive experience my next work laptop will likely be a linux laptop, even if I have to give up some battery life to get there.

The gap on user experience is closing fast with all the fumbles Apple’s been making in their increasingly iOS-like experience across all their OSes. Not to mentioned the incredible improvements in a number of popular desktop environments.

Currently the only applications that are MacOS-only for me are Logic Pro (I do use bigwig and Ardour on Linux but 25 years of muscle memory, project files, and sunk costs in hardware and software are hard to overlook) and Fusion 360 (I can’t get the very detailed and well-built Wine path to work for me).

And if I can get a few of my key VST plugins to work on Linux, I can probably say goodbye to Apple forever.